Current Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Biology is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?654
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators319
A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice291
My bird206
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise198
Lost knowledge190
Efference copies: Side-eyeing across species188
Collective behaviour: When avoidance becomes a deterrent155
Anthropocene at altitude152
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin144
How to survive in the desert140
Lucy Aplin138
Evolution and development: From the pet shop to the pelagic zone128
How to know whales, and ourselves127
Mammals, wildlife trade, and the next global pandemic124
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters118
Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL115
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites111
Human evolution: Neanderthal footprints in African genomes111
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons105
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex105
Australian magpies104
A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs103
Gonzalo Giribet103
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe102
North Atlantic tipping point ahead101
Iberian ribbed newts99
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on98
Evolutionary genetics: Inversions — Do not quail but go big!97
Specializations in optic flow encoding in the pretectum of hummingbirds and zebra finches94
Nurse honey bees filter fungicide residues to maintain larval health88
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin87
The biomechanics of turgor pressure87
Mistletoes86
Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly85
Apical PAR protein caps orient the mitotic spindle in C. elegans early embryos84
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse83
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise83
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past81
Specialized predation by deep-sea Solenogastres revealed by sequencing of gut contents81
Floral bullseyes and stratospheric ozone78
Colors77
Cell biology: How does the nucleus get its membrane?77
Evidence for a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition76
Sleep: The great adaptive diversity75
Predictive saccades and decision making in the beetle-predating saffron robber fly75
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks75
Ancient Australia73
Circabidian rhythm of sex pheromone reception in a scarab beetle72
Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular toolkit used by an algivorous protist for cell wall perforation72
An insular cortical circuit required for itch sensation and aversion71
Erin Saupe70
Modulation of sweet preference by neurosteroid-sensitive, δ-GABAA receptors in adult mouse gustatory insular cortex69
Lipocalins69
Metabolism: Secretory autophagy balances nutrient supply and demand68
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe68
Self-recognition: From touching the body to knowing the self67
Rolling back public health66
Paleontology: Ediacaran ecology drove ocean ventilation66
Probabilistically constrained vector summation of motion direction in the mouse superior colliculus65
Salp fecal pellets release more bioavailable iron to Southern Ocean phytoplankton than krill fecal pellets65
Oxytocin-mediated social preference and socially reinforced reward learning in the miniature fish Danionella cerebrum65
Centriole-less pericentriolar material serves as a microtubule organizing center at the base of C. elegans sensory cilia64
Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward64
Photobiology: Fish eggs go sunny side up64
Mammalian evolution: Digging for lower extinction rates64
Plant–microbe interactions: Plant-exuded myo-inositol attracts specific bacterial taxa64
Excitatory and inhibitory neural dynamics jointly tune motion detection64
Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test63
Cephalopod behaviour63
RDH12 allows cone photoreceptors to regenerate opsin visual pigments from a chromophore precursor to escape competition with rods63
Conservation genetics63
Response to Kratochvíl and Rovatsos63
Synaptic inhibition in the lateral habenula shapes reward anticipation62
A common molecular mechanism underlying Cornelia de Lange and CHOPS syndromes62
Interommatidial cells build a tensile collagen network during Drosophila retinal morphogenesis62
Rapid turnover of top predators in African terrestrial faunas around the Permian-Triassic mass extinction62
A BORC-dependent molecular pathway for vesiculation of cell corpse phagolysosomes61
Surface flow for colonial integration in reef-building corals61
Explaining face representation in the primate brain using different computational models60
Iron and manganese availability drives primary production and carbon export in the Weddell Sea60
Photosynthetic sucrose drives the lateral root clock in Arabidopsis seedlings60
Hormone-controlled changes in the differentiation state of post-mitotic neurons60
Spastin locally amplifies microtubule dynamics to pattern the axon for presynaptic cargo delivery60
Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom59
Stimulation of caudal inferior and middle frontal gyri disrupts planning during spoken interaction59
Fronto-medial theta coordinates posterior maintenance of working memory content59
A blinking focal pattern of re-entrant activity in the avian tectum58
Performance errors during rodent learning reflect a dynamic choice strategy58
Stealth echolocation in aerial hawking bats reflects a substrate gleaning ancestry57
Marine heat waves drive bleaching and necrosis of temperate sponges57
A recurrent neural circuit in Drosophila temporally sharpens visual inputs57
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean57
Phased polyploid genomes provide deeper insight into the multiple origins of domesticated Saccharomyces cerevisiae beer yeasts57
Feature representation under crowding in macaque V1 and V4 neuronal populations57
Sleep spindles track cortical learning patterns for memory consolidation57
Selective responses to faces, scenes, and bodies in the ventral visual pathway of infants56
Discovering the role of Patagonian birds in the dispersal of truffles and other mycorrhizal fungi56
Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator56
Organization of an ascending circuit that conveys flight motor state in Drosophila56
Animal medication56
Cognitive influences on fixational eye movements56
Wound repair: Two distinct Rap1 pathways close the gap56
Dopamine neurons drive spatiotemporally heterogeneous striatal dopamine signals during learning55
Dynamic BMP signaling mediates notochord segmentation in zebrafish55
The heterochronic LIN-14 protein is a BEN domain transcription factor55
Cytokinin promotes growth cessation in the Arabidopsis root55
Control of stem cell behavior by CLE-JINGASA signaling in the shoot apical meristem in Marchantia polymorpha55
Change in RhoGAP and RhoGEF availability drives transitions in cortical patterning and excitability in Drosophila54
Bats resolve conflicting sensory information for individual recognition54
The origins of the killer whale ecomorph54
A causal role for the human subthalamic nucleus in non-selective cortico-motor inhibition54
Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance54
Human gaze is systematically offset from the center of cone topography53
Plant–microbe interactions: A transcriptional switch governing fungal lifestyle shifts53
Genome evolution: On the nature of trade-offs with polyploidy and endopolyploidy53
Microtubule end-on attachment maturation regulates Mps1 association with its kinetochore receptor53
Deficient synaptic neurotransmission results in a persistent sleep-like cortical activity across vigilance states in mice53
The geologic history of primary productivity53
Fear dynamically structures the ocean’s pelagic zone52
Neuroscience: Therapy modulates decision-making in Parkinson’s disease52
Sociality is a key driver of foraging ranges in bees52
Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research52
Invertebrate biodiversity and conservation52
Real-time processes in the development of action planning52
Two distinct compartments of a ctenophore comb plate provide structural and functional integrity for the motility of giant multicilia52
Structural changes in cell wall pectic polymers contribute to freezing tolerance induced by cold acclimation in plants51
The oral microbiota of wild bears in Sweden reflects the history of antibiotic use by humans51
Disparate insults relevant to schizophrenia converge on impaired spike synchrony and weaker synaptic interactions in prefrontal local circuits51
Population turnover facilitates cultural selection for efficiency in birds51
Modularity buffers the spread of spatial perturbations in macroalgal networks50
Causal oscillations in the visual thalamo-cortical network in sustained attention in ferrets50
A novel period mutation implicating nuclear export in temperature compensation of the Drosophila circadian clock50
Incorporating global change reveals extinction risk beyond the current Red List50
Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding50
Respiration: The circuit for hypoxia-induced sighs49
A pyritized Ordovician leanchoiliid arthropod48
Strong winds reduce foraging success in albatrosses48
Neuroscience: Action history and the orbitofrontal cortex48
Decision making: Making sense of non-sensory neurons48
A new and large monofenestratan reveals the evolutionary transition to the pterodactyloid pterosaurs48
Bird migration: Clock and compass facilitate hemisphere switching48
Historical body temperature records as a population-level ‘thermometer’ of physical activity in the United States48
Neuroscience: Turbulent times for brain information processing48
Plant biology: Environmental extremes induce a jump in peach fitness48
Seed dispersal: Hungry hornets are unexpected and effective vectors48
Wetland worries48
Protist diversity: Novel groups enrich the algal tree of life47
Reinforcement learning: Dopamine ramps with fuzzy value estimates47
Climate fluctuations influence variation in group size in a cooperative bird47
Plant reproduction: Stigma receptors regulate reactive oxygen species to establish pollination barriers47
Local translation provides the asymmetric distribution of CaMKII required for associative memory formation47
Masting47
KANK proteins47
Force-activated zyxin assemblies coordinate actin nucleation and crosslinking to orchestrate stress fiber repair47
Distinct neural adaptations to time demand in the striatum and the hippocampus46
Visual processing: Systematic variation in light–dark bias across visual space46
Evolution: A quantity–quality trade-off constrains the evolution of immortality in bacterial endospores46
Whi5 hypo- and hyper-phosphorylation dynamics control cell-cycle entry and progression46
Glossiness disrupts predator localisation of moving prey46
Animal physiology: How do tardigrades survive intense radiation?46
Stretch triggers microtubule stabilization and MARCKS-dependent membrane incorporation in the shaft of embryonic axons45
Ecosystem condition emerges from an ecological equation of state applied to North American tree communities45
Paleobiology: Drilling for the drivers of the Cambrian explosion45
From Jakarta to the jungle45
Stem cell-specific ecdysone signaling regulates the development of dorsal fan-shaped body neurons and sleep homeostasis45
Climate-induced shifts in crocodile body temperature impact behavior and performance45
Phylogenomics defines Streptofilum as a novel deep branch of streptophyte algae45
Allied male dolphins use vocal exchanges to “bond at a distance”44
Inter-individual coordination in walking chimpanzees44
Modulation and neural correlates of postmating sleep plasticity in Drosophila females44
Conversion of anterograde into retrograde trains is an intrinsic property of intraflagellar transport44
Organogenesis: Cell death matters in size and shape regulation44
A conserved GRAS-domain transcriptional regulator links meristem indeterminacy to sex determination in Ceratopteris gametophytes44
Mosquitoes integrate visual and acoustic cues to mediate conspecific interactions in swarms44
Patterns of Genomic Variation in the Opportunistic Pathogen Candida glabrata Suggest the Existence of Mating and a Secondary Association with Humans44
Sensory systems: Geckos shake up our understanding of vertebrate audition43
The histone H3.3 K27M mutation suppresses Ser31phosphorylation and mitotic fidelity, which can directly drive gliomagenesis42
Evolution: Mislabeling marsupial development as primitive42
Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies without neural input42
An acentriolar centrosome at the C. elegans ciliary base42
Injury primes mutation-bearing astrocytes for dedifferentiation in later life42
Diverse operant control of different motor cortex populations during learning42
Correlation between ranges of leg walking angles and passive rest angles among leg types in stick insects41
Avian photoreceptor homologies and the origin of double cones41
The genetic basis of spatial cognitive variation in a food-caching bird41
Bird genitalia41
Identification of an a-factor-like pheromone secreted by the heterothallic ascomycete Aspergillus fumigatus41
Recruitment of grid-like responses in human entorhinal and piriform cortices by odor landmark-based navigation41
Wild chimpanzees share fermented fruits41
Skin mycobiota-mediated antagonism against Staphylococcus aureus through a modified fatty acid41
Maintaining symmetry during body axis elongation40
A robust receptive field code for optic flow detection and decomposition during self-motion40
The connectome predicts resting-state functional connectivity across the Drosophila brain40
The dynamic adaptive landscape of cetacean body size40
Morphospace40
A neural mechanism for optic flow parsing in macaque visual cortex40
Absence of visual cues motivates desert ants to build their own landmarks40
Is our retina really upside down?40
An ammonium transporter is a non-canonical olfactory receptor for ammonia40
Voice-mediated interactions in a megaherbivore40
Early Alpine occupation backdates westward human migration in Late Glacial Europe39
Bacteria grow swiftly and live thriftily39
Social media unveils the hidden but high magnitude of human-mediated biological invasions in China39
Evolution at multiple processing levels underlies odor-guided behavior in the genus Drosophila39
Seabird morphology determines operational wind speeds, tolerable maxima, and responses to extremes39
The conserved RNA-binding protein Imp is required for the specification and function of olfactory navigation circuitry in Drosophila39
Ethylene plays a dual role in sex determination and fruit shape in cucurbits39
Dietary ecology of the scimitar-toothed cat Homotherium serum39
Neurons of rat motor cortex become active during both grasping execution and grasping observation39
Neural population dynamics of human working memory39
Ecology dictates the value of memory for foraging bees39
Healthy aging delays and dedifferentiates high-level visual representations39
Cultivate biodiversity to harvest food security and sustainability39
Mechanisms of inbreeding avoidance in a wild primate39
Sharks and how to save them38
Axial asymmetry organizes division plane orthogonality in Neisseria gonorrhoeae38
The genetic history of the Southern Andes from present-day Mapuche ancestry38
Retrofusion of intralumenal MVB membranes parallels viral infection and coexists with exosome release38
The eyes anticipate where objects will move based on their shape38
Ancient genomes reveal demographic trajectories during the Classic Maya period38
A systems model of alternating theta sweeps via firing rate adaptation38
Behavioral signatures of structured feature detection during courtship in Drosophila38
Measuring air metagenomic diversity in an agricultural ecosystem38
Magnetic actuation of otoliths allows behavioral and brain-wide neuronal exploration of vestibulo-motor processing in larval zebrafish38
Tracking widespread climate-driven change on temperate and tropical reefs38
Differential encoding of place value between the dorsal and intermediate hippocampus38
Image-dependence of the detectability of optogenetic stimulation in macaque inferotemporal cortex38
A cell-based model for size control in the multiple fission alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii38
Retinal horizontal cells use different synaptic sites for global feedforward and local feedback signaling38
Alteration in information flow through a pair of feeding command neurons underlies a form of Pavlovian conditioning in the Drosophila brain37
Plant physiology: The overturning of assumed functional relevance of ‘salt’ bladders37
Intracytoplasmic-membrane development in alphaproteobacteria involves the homolog of the mitochondrial crista-developing protein Mic6037
Ecological niche modelling37
Diversity and ecology of protists revealed by metabarcoding37
Powerful peatlands37
ELF3 coordinates temperature and photoperiodic control of seasonal growth in hybrid aspen37
Input-timing-dependent plasticity at incoming synapses of the mushroom body facilitates olfactory learning in Drosophila37
Hallstatt miners consumed blue cheese and beer during the Iron Age and retained a non-Westernized gut microbiome until the Baroque period37
A Silurian pseudocolonial pterobranch37
Polyploid cyanobacterial genomes provide a reservoir of mutations, allowing rapid evolution of herbicide resistance37
Åke Lindström37
Rain harvesting by plants37
Nematode nuclear receptors as integrators of sensory information36
Unusual morphology in the mid-Cretaceous lizard Oculudentavis36
The arbitrium system controls prophage induction36
Nigrostriatal dopamine signals sequence-specific action-outcome prediction errors36
Ancient Mycobacterium leprae genome reveals medieval English red squirrels as animal leprosy host36
Vision and microsaccades: Time to pay attention!36
A method to soothe and promote sleep in crying infants utilizing the transport response36
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